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Buchanan on race? In 1970 Richard Nixon was weighing the wisdom of enforcing court orders that required the desegregation of Southern public schools, by busing if necessary. A lot of people didn't like the idea. Buchanan was one. As he told Garment, he was working on a speech for...
"It'll be really great," said Jeffrey A. Smagula '96, who co-chairs the house committee along with Neda Ratana-wongsa '96. "We're providing busing [to the dance] and people can have dinner in the city."
Nowhere has the transformation been as dramatic and tense as in Wausau's school system, where today 30% of elementary students are Southeast Asian. Yet there is no formal bilingual program in Wausau because there are virtually no certified Hmong-speaking teachers. So the school system has relied on teaching...
Instead, the community rebelled. Five school-board members who supported the plan were later recalled. Last year the partnership effort was dropped. No one felt the fallout more than ousted board member Fred Prehn, who had championed the plan. "I received phone messages telling me that I would get a...
These small victories, such as improvements in shuttle busing and other student services, would then give the council enough credibility to tackle larger issues, he said.